§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list, for each industrial sector working party since it was set up, the changes in the index of output and the penetration of home and overseas markets and
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Sector Working Party (or EDC) Approximate Nearest corresponding Annual average percentage changes in: SIC Coverage Minimum List Headings Output* Employment† Import penetration‡ Food and drink EDC, of which: 211 to 239 211 to 239** Food and drink +½ -1¾ -1 Biscuits SWG 213 213 Biscuits - ¾ - 2½ + ¼ Meat and meat products SWG 214 214 Bacon, curing, meat, and fish products +1½ -¾ -½ Milk and milk products SWG 215 215 Milk and milk products + ¾ - 2 - 2¼ Cocoa, chocolate and confectionary SWG 217 217 Cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionary +2 - ¾ + ¾ Brewing SWG 231 231 Brewing and malting - ½ - 1 - ¼ Spirit distilling SWG part of 239 239** Other drink industries + ¼ + ¼ n.a. Specialised organics SWP part of 271 271 General chemicals - ¼ + ¼ + 1¾ Petrochemicals SWP part of 172, 276 271 and 276 General chemicals and synthetic resins -1 — +2 Pharmaceuticals SWP 272 272 Pharmaceutical chem-icals and preparations + 2¼ - ½ + ¼ Iron and steel SWP 311 and 312 311 and 312 Iron and steel (general) and steel tubes -4¼ - 7½ + 2¼ Foundries EDC parts of 313, 321 to 323 313, 321 to 323 Iron castings and non-ferrous metals - 3¾ - 3 + 1¾ Machine tools EDC 332, part of 339 332 Metal-working machine tools - 4½ - 3 ¼ + 1½ Pumps and valves SWP part of 333 333 Pumps, valves and compressors - ½ - l¾ - ½ Diesel engines SWP parts of 334, 370, 380, 381 334 Industrial engines - ½ - 4 + 2½ Textile machinery SWP 335 335 Textile machinery and accessories -22¼ - 8¼ — Construction equipment and mobile cranes SWP 336, part of 337 336 Construction and earth-moving equipment -4½ -2½ + l¼ Mechanical handling SWP part of 337 337 Mechanical handling equipment - 4¼ - 2½ + ½ Office machinery SWP 338, part of 351 338 Office machinery -7 -3 +8¼ Mining machinery SWP part of 339 Printing machinery SWP part of 339 Heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration SWP part of 339 339 Other machinery - 3½ - 2¾ + l¼ Food, drink and packaging machinery SWP parts of 339 and 341 341 Constructional steelwork SWP Process plant EDC part of 341 part of 341 341 Industrial (including process) plant and Steelwork - 2¼ -4 - ¼ Electronic capital equipment SWP part of 353, 354, 367 354 and 367 Scientific and industrial instruments and sys-tems, radio, radar and electronic capital goods +3¾ + ¾ + ¼ Heavy electrical machinery SWP parts of 334 361 Electrical machinery - 5½ - 2¾ + 2 Industrial electrical equipment SWP parts of 361 and 369 Telecommunications SWP 363 363 Telegraph and tele-phone apparatus and equipment - 3 - 5 - l¼ Electronic components SWP 364 364 Radio and electronic components + 9¾ - 2¼ + l½ Electronic consumer goods SWP part of 365 365 Broadcast receiving and sound reproducing equipment — - 6 +4 Electronic computers SWP 366 366 Electronic computers + 24¼ +2 +3 employment, together with the standard industrial classification minimum list headings covered by each working party.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe information in the following table relates to standard industrial classification groupings that correspond as closely as possible to the coverage of the sector working parties. Information about the penetration of overseas markets is not available.
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Sector Working Party (or EDC) Approximate Nearest corresponding Annual average percentage changes in: SIC Coverage Minimum List Headings Output* Employment‡ Import penetration‡ Domestic electrical appliances SWP part of 368 368 Electric appliance primarily for domestic use - 1¾ - 3¼ + l¼ Gauge and tool SWP 390 390 Engineers' small tools and guages +2¼ - 1 + ½ Man-made fibres SWP 411 411 Production of man-made fibres -11¼ - 8¼ +5¼ Cotton and allied textiles EDC parts of 412, 413, 422, 423 413,422,423 423** Cotton spinning and weaving, made up weaving, made up textiles, textile finishing - 7¼ - 6¼ +2¾ Wool textiles EDC 414 414 Woollen and worsted - 4½ - 6 +1 Knitting SWP 417 417 Hosiery and other knit-ted goods - ¾ - 3½ + 1½ Clothing EDC 441 to 445, 449 441 to 445, 449 Clothing other than headgear + ½ - 3½ + l¼ Footwear EDC part of 450 450 Footwear - 2 - 2¼ +2 Paper and board SWP 481 481 Paper and board - ¾ - 3 + ¼ Printing industries SWP parts of 481 to 489 and others 482, 483, 489 Packaging, stationery, book printing + ½ -2 +¼ Tyre industry SWP part of 491 491 Rubber - ¾ - 5½ + l½ Plastics processing SWP parts of 496 and others 496 Plastics products not elsewhere specified + 3¾ - 1 + ¾ Notes:
* Based on the Index of Industrial Production (1975= 100), seasonally adjusted. Change from 4th quarter 1975 to 3rd quarter 1980, expressed at an annual rate.
Source: Central Statistical Office.
†Employees in employment in Great Britain. Change from November 1975 to November 1980 expressed at an annual rate.
Source: Department of Employment.
‡Imports (cif) as a percentage of United Kingdom demand, i.e. United Kingdom manufacturers' sales plus imports (cif) minus exports (fob), in current value terms. Annual number of percentage points change from year ended June 1976 to year ended September 1980.
Source: Departments of Industry and Trade.
** Suitable sales data for MLH 239 'Other drink industries' are not available for the construction of measure †. In addition, this measure is not appropriate to the activities of MLH 423 'textile finishing'. These MLHs have therefore been omitted from measure † for the groups 'Food and drink' and 'Cotton spinning and weaving, made up textiles and textile finishing' respectively.
Symbols
—nil or insignificant
n.a. not available
Abbreviations
SIC: Standard Industrial Classification (revised 1968)
EDC: Economic Development Council
SWP: Sector Working Party
SWG: Sector Working Group